Moral and Religious SouvenirN.S. Simpkins, 1828 - 288 pages |
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Page 98
... equal or a greater care of his actions . And this I take to be both the true meaning , and the true reason of the saying of St James , with which I shall conclude ; ' If any man offend not in word , the same is a perfect man ...
... equal or a greater care of his actions . And this I take to be both the true meaning , and the true reason of the saying of St James , with which I shall conclude ; ' If any man offend not in word , the same is a perfect man ...
Page 131
... equal . The possessor of the valuable trea- sure appears , indeed , rather to have the advan- tage , and he seems to claim his superiority . I have discovered at once , in a large company , by an air and deportment that is assumed upon ...
... equal . The possessor of the valuable trea- sure appears , indeed , rather to have the advan- tage , and he seems to claim his superiority . I have discovered at once , in a large company , by an air and deportment that is assumed upon ...
Page 154
... equal temptation to the commission of them , and that this selfignorance , arising out of this situation , is a frequent and fruitful source of moral pride . THE STRANGER AND HIS FRIEND . MATT . XXV . 154 SPIRITUAL PRIDE .
... equal temptation to the commission of them , and that this selfignorance , arising out of this situation , is a frequent and fruitful source of moral pride . THE STRANGER AND HIS FRIEND . MATT . XXV . 154 SPIRITUAL PRIDE .
Page 177
... equal to that which springs from the divine ambition of aiming at a resemblance of God , and from the glorious hope of seeing him as he is , in some future period of existence . ' Now are we the sons of God , but it doth not yet appear ...
... equal to that which springs from the divine ambition of aiming at a resemblance of God , and from the glorious hope of seeing him as he is , in some future period of existence . ' Now are we the sons of God , but it doth not yet appear ...
Page 187
... equal liberty , and give me leave only to make choice of my company . May the God of truth and righteousness ever defend us from that lib- erality , which shall induce us to become tame and patient spectators of blasphemy and impiety ...
... equal liberty , and give me leave only to make choice of my company . May the God of truth and righteousness ever defend us from that lib- erality , which shall induce us to become tame and patient spectators of blasphemy and impiety ...
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Page 103 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 98 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 167 - Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow, And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires...
Page 52 - Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels, and to the church of the first-born, who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect.
Page 167 - MUSIC. BLEST pair of sirens, pledges of heaven's joy, Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse, Wed your divine sounds, and mixed power employ, Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce...
Page 158 - I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some...
Page 127 - In the midst of the current of life was the gulf of Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, interspersed with rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which Ease spread couches of repose, and with shades, where Pleasure warbled the song of invitation.
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Page 115 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 125 - ... ocean of life; that we had already passed the straits of infancy, in which multitudes had perished, some by the weakness and fragility of their vessels, and more by the folly, perverseness, or negligence of those who undertook to steer them; and that we were now on the main sea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of security than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance.